Unearthed Audio Exposes Winsome Earle-Sears’ Extreme Anti-Choice Views – “We need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after…You already made a choice”

That’s right, Winsome Earle-Sears thinks that:

• “We need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after. You already made a choice.”
• “she considered abortion to be ‘genocide’ and that she wanted to make abortion illegal in all cases unless the mother’s life was at risk.”
• “suggested an equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy.”

BREAKING: Unearthed Audio Exposes Winsome Earle-Sears Extreme Anti-Choice Views 
 

Sears: “We need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after. You already made a choice.”

Sears recently voted against the Right to Contraception Act and supports a near-total abortion ban

VIRGINIA – New reporting from The Guardian reveals new audio of  Winsome Earle-Sears doubling down on her extreme support of abortion bans despite her recent lies that she’s “never said limiting access” and “we’re not limiting access at all.” The Guardian unearthed Sears saying “we need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after, you already made a choice,” calling abortion “genocide,” and supporting a near total abortion ban.

The Guardian: GOP nominee for Virginia governor tries to distance herself from anti-abortion past

• The Republican nominee for governor of Virginia has recently tried to distance herself from her long-standing, hardline anti-abortion record, declining recently to state whether she would support any restrictions on abortion access if she is elected to lead the state this fall. But her record reveals a candidate staunchly opposed to the procedure.

• Winsome Earle-Sears, now the state’s lieutenant governor, […] has previously said she wants to make abortion illegal in almost all cases. In audio obtained by the Guardian, Earle-Sears also suggested an equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy.

• While campaigning for lieutenant governor in January 2021, before Roe v Wade was overturned and support for abortion rights rose among the US public, Earle-Sears told a reporter that she considered abortion to be “genocide” and that she wanted to make abortion illegal in all cases unless the mother’s life was at risk.

• In a little-noticed radio interview from June 2022, Earle-Sears suggested to then conservative radio host John Reid, now the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, that women consenting to sex are consenting to pregnancy. “We need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after,” she said, just days after the supreme court overturned Roe. “You already made a choice.”

• That comment was of a piece with other past statements. In September 2021, Earle-Sears said on Newsmax that she supported a six-week abortion ban like the one that had just taken effect in Texas.

• Most recently, Earle-Sears, who is required as the state’s senate president to add her signature to bills that pass the legislature, added a note to a constitutional amendment to codify abortion rights that the legislature passed in May. The Virginia Mercury reported that she wrote above her signature: “I am morally opposed to this bill […]”

• The Earle-Sears campaign declined to comment on the record on her recent interview as well as the 2022 interview.

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